Monday, September 28, 2015
Karen's Input on Dyanna's Presentation
Through out the whole block, we have been studying transcendentalism as a class. We made connections to characters in The Scarlet Letter, like Hester, to making connections of the character of John Proctor in The Crucible. Today in Dyanna Pacheco's presentation she focused on one of the female civil rights leader, Rosa Parks. When I think of Parks, I think of a transcendentalist character not following the norms of society. She stands by her own ground, no matter the consequences. Especially being an African-American woman during the Civil Rights Movement, society imposed so many rules on to her. Whether it was from not drinking from a White person's water fountain or not speaking up about her rights just because of her gender, only caused her to not obey the rules. Just like Hester, Parks did whatever felt right at her heart. Do you agree with this connection?
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I do agree with this connection because on Rosa Parks part it wasn't expectable to do what she did. Although it wasn't an intentional trascendentalist move, I believe it could still be represented as one. She did something that was out of normal standards and expectations of everyone in the society back then. She followed her own paths and beliefs in that one action of sitting in the white section of the bus.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree, because to me transcendentalism is being completely unique. So if a group of people rally behind a thought, and that thought becomes the norm for those people, is that still transcendentalism? And if so, would every minority group that doesn't have exactly 51% of public support transcendentalism? I believe the civil rights movement was something that most people disagreed with, at least not in the 60's. I think that a minority of close minded people were so violently against it that people believed it demonstrated what the majority of Americans believe. However, laws were still passed, and support of this movement became a national phenomenon. Obviously racism was rampant in a lot of the country, but much like today, the majority of Americans were progressive thinking. But getting back to Rosa Parks specifically, her actions were in support of a movement that already had a large portion of Americans behind it. So is every movement that fights for something, no matter how large or popular, a transcendentalist movement? And is every action that supports this movement a transcendentalist act?
ReplyDelete*I believe the civil rights movement was something most people agreed with, at least in the 60's and 70's.* Sorry kind of messed up there
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